What the pigging hell is THAT !!!!!!!

[Evans Electric]

Doing an EICR  yesterday ....   I dive into a bedroom , go straight to the socket on far wall  and plug in the Loop tester ... tester lights come on , press the button , note  the reading........stand up  ,... turn around  and  ... JEEEEEEZ!!!!!   WHO THE HELL'S THAT  !!!!!   

 

[ProDave]

Did I tell you the story of when I was working alone in an empty house, up in the loft and someone started laughing behind me?

 

[binky]

Nope, pray do.

 

[Tony S]

Its me dad!

 

[Evans Electric]

Did I tell you the story of when I was working alone in an empty house, up in the loft and someone started laughing behind me?

Looking forwards to this !

I've got a couple weird stories  I can impart later. 

 

[Doc Hudson]

Doing an EICR  yesterday ....   I dive into a bedroom , go straight to the socket on far wall  and plug in the Loop tester ... tester lights come on , press the button , note  the reading........stand up  ,... turn around  and  ... JEEEEEEZ!!!!!   WHO THE HELL'S THAT  !!!!!   

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Isn't that just your reflection in the full length mirror behind the door?

Doc H.

 

[Evans Electric]

OOOooh  You learn who your friends are on here don't you !!!  

Gave me quite a start I can tell you ,   I could hear my mate downstairs talking to the window fitter so assumed it was just me upstairs. 

 

[OnOff]

I still think leaving shed, pet snake skins under the floor for the next bloke to find is a good prank.

 

[phil d]

I used to keep all sorts of weird pets, one time I ended up with a tarantula, anyhow one time it had shed its skin, so I kept it, it looked like a real spider and was great for scaring people. However, I have a friend and his wife is absolutely terrified of spiders, and I mean terrified, one day they'd been over at our house for drinks, and at the side of where my mates wife was sat was what appeared to be an empty fishtank, empty except for some soil and a couple of bits of bogwood. What you couldn't see, under the log, was this huge spider!

they left later that evening and when they got home she commented that she was a little concerned about my mental health, "why is that?" asked my mate, "well, who in their right mind keeps an empty fishtank in their lounge" she replied, "that's not an empty tank, there's a huge tarantula in there" laughed my mate. She never came over again, simply because she knew there was a spider in the house. lol

 

[ProDave]

So, I was working in an empty house, preparing for a CU change, up in the loft chasing the borrowed neutral on the kitchen light.

Suddenly this loud raucous laugh bellows out behind me. I nearly shat myself and turned round, but nobody was there.

I came down from the lof and searched the house, even looked outside,  there was still nobody about.  So back to the loft.

A few minutes later this geezer starts laughing behind me again.  No, still nobody there. WFT.

Then I found it.  I was pulling on a cable, that went under a black plastic sack full of stuffed kids toys, and in there was a monkey that when you squeezed it, it laughed, and the tugging of the cable must have pushed the button on the toy.

 

[Evans Electric]

AAH!   And  I thought it was going to be a scary ghost story .

Couple of tales from the crypt .

(1).   Rewiring an empty house in Yam - Yam land    (  Or... only Specs will understand this ,   in God's Country , ie;  Pensnet  is it Specs? )      Any way , there on my own first day , apprentice at day release  .,   boards up , kneeling down,  feeding cables under upper floor in back bed .   Toiling away there when I became aware of  a coldness , then in my mind I knew there was an old guy standing in the doorway , watching me ,  not having heard anyone  come in , I clasped the hammer and spun around .........to find no one there ,  house was empty .    

Apprentice arrives next day , I tell him to continue feeding cables under the same section  while I nip to the wholesalers.     Get back , he,s sitting on the wall outside .  Says he,s not going in on his own ...he thought he imagined an old guy standing in the same doorway , watching him .     I hadn't mentioned anything about the day before .   :Godno:  

(2)  Strange thing No 2 .     Rewiring a primary school , again in Yam- Yam land   ( Oldbury)   Me & another spark are working on the mains , down some cellar steps when I get one of those De ja Vue  feelings but in this case I told the other sparks what it was ..........that our supervisor  John , would turn up , come rattling down the steps and say  ... rhubarb  , rhubarb, rhubarb , rhubarb  ( Can't remember now)   .  A few minutes later  feet rattle down the steps ..John bursts in and says ..Rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb , rhubarb !!!!   :C

Funny thing was , as the feet rattled down ,  the other spark who happened to be a black guy .... stared at me   , eyes the size of golf balls and when John spoke  he nearly died .     :Godno:       

 

[phil d]

I remember working in a pub cellar once, one part of it was a lot colder than anywhere else, this pub is hundreds of years old, the story goes that in it's early days the cold bit was a store cupboard that was only used very infrequently, a man was being hunted by the soldiers and somehow got into the cellar and hid in the store, they searched everywhere but didn't find him, unfortunately, they bolted the door before leaving and it was several weeks later when someone went in, by this time he had died.

The funniest one I ever heard concerned my own family, in the early 60's my mother and father were courting and fancied a naughty weekend away, now that wasn't the done thing at the time, so they arranged to go as a group, mum, her two brothers, my father, and her brothers girlfriends.

They found a guest house in Rhyl, it was a three story place overlooking the sea, and according to my father, looked like something out of the Munsters, well, there was only them staying there and the place looked a bit run down. In the early hours they decided to do a bit of exploring, they were all in their late teens at the time! They headed up the stairs to the top floor and my uncle opened a door, shone his small torch into the doorway, someone standing on the opposite side of the room shone one back, the girls screamed and they ran downstairs, waking up the landlady in the process!

She was really annoyed and led them all back upstairs, this time turning the lights on, she opened the door where they'd thought they'd seen someone, and turned the light on, directly opposite the door was an old wardrobe, with a full length mirror on the door. lol